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Subject: INDIGENOUS CULTURE, YOUTH AMONG KEY TOPICS AS UN PERMANENT
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INDIGENOUS CULTURE, YOUTH AMONG KEY TOPICS AS UN PERMANENT FORUM OPENS
12TH SESSIONNew York, May 20 2013 6:00PMAround 2,300 indigenous
participants are expected to discuss culture, education and health
during the 12th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues, which will include a special focus on youth,
indigenous groups in Africa and the importance of strengthening ties
with international financial institutions.
"We must have a better understanding of the views and values of
indigenous peoples by engaging them in decision-making and providing a
platform for issues affecting their lives and livelihoods,"
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged in a
<"http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=6827">message at the
opening of the 12th forum delivered by Wu Hongbo,
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
The two-week gathering will be overseen by Paul Kanyinke Sena, Chair
of the UN Permanent Forum, who stressed that culture, education and
health are the basic rights for all people, "They are at the core of
indigenous peoples' right to life, our right to dignity and
well-being."
In his opening address, Mr. Sena noted that the concept of health and
healing for indigenous people includes not only access without
discrimination to social and health services, but also includes
connections with family, land and language, as well as access to
traditional plans, animals and minerals.
He also stressed the importance of local languages in school and the
right of indigenous people to establish and control the education of
their children in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of
teaching and learning.
The day's programme includes discussions about indigenous issues from
the perspective of young people based on the findings of a report by
the UN Expert Group Meeting, held in January 2013, on identities,
challenges and hopes of indigenous youth.
Out of the 370 million indigenous peoples in the world, approximately
67 million are youths, according to figures cited in the report.
In addition to today's official discussions, five side events with
highlight issues of health and reproductive rights, investing in
indigenous youth, education, the launch of an adolescent-friendly
version of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as
well as of a study on violence against indigenous girls, adolescents
and young women.
Youth is one of Mr. Ban's priority areas, and he launched the
development of a System-Wide Action Plan on youth (SWAP) to deepen the
youth focus of existing UN programmes, and appointed Ahmad Alhindawi
as his envoy on the topic.
Later in the week, the Forum will focus on issues related specifically
to the estimated 50 million indigenous people living in Africa, who in
addition to fighting claims to their indigenous lands and competition
for natural resources, also face challenges to recognition of their
indigenous identity.
The Forum is expected to adopt recommendations at the conclusion of
the discussion, addressing the main issues, challenges and positive
measures of cooperation to improve the situation of indigenous peoples
in Africa, according to the Forum organizers.
"It is time to turn the rights enshrined in the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples into a reality around the world,
especially in the African region," said Mr. Sena who is the first
African to chair the Forum, representing the Ogiek people in Kenya.
This year, the Forum will include an in-depth dialogue with the World
Bank, the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Finance
Corporation in order to review the development and adoption of
policies and mechanisms for the engagement and effective participation
of indigenous peoples.
"The World Bank is sending a delegation of 30 people, the largest so
far so you can see how seriously they are taking the Forum," Mr. Sena
told journalists in New York. He spoke in a press conference alongside
Andrea Landry, Canadian Youth Representative; Setareki Macanawai,
Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Disability Forum in Fiji, and
other representatives.
Financial resources were also part of today's discussion. In his
opening statement, Mr. Hongbo highlighted the contributions of Member
States to the UN Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues which issues small
grants of $10,000 to indigenous organizations working on related
issued, particularly in health and education.
Applications are being assessed this month with the aim of
"strengthening international cooperation for the solution of problems
faced by indigenous peoples in such areas as culture, education,
health, human rights, the environment, social and economic
development by means of action-oriented programs and specific
projects, increased technical assistance and relevant standard-setting
activities," according to its website.
In his speech, Mr. Hongbo reiterated Mr. Ban's message of the
importance of inclusion of indigenous issues and point of view in the
UN agenda. "The United Nations has committed its unwavering support
to a future where all indigenous peoples will enjoy peace, human
rights and well-being. It has welcomed indigenous peoples as
partners," he said.
This year's Forum will also look forward to the first World Conference
on Indigenous Peoples in September of next year and decide on a
potential theme. Two-hundred indigenous participants from seven
regions are to be invited.
The preparations for the World Conference coincide with ongoing
discussions of a post-2015 development agenda to success the current
eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).
While there is no specific reference to indigenous peoples in the
MDGs, the Permanent Forum have highlighted the relevance of indigenous
concepts and practices of development, such as "living well" which
translates to "sumak kawsay" or "sumaq qamaña" in the Kichwa and
Aymara languages from the Andes.
"This is a unique moment for the Permanent Forum, under the auspices
of the Economic and Social Council, to focus on its contribution
towards change. I respectfully urge that Member States work with all
actors to find a common understanding," said Vice-President of the UN
General Assembly, Abulkalam Abdul Momen.
Also addressing the opening session, the President of the UN Economic,
Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC), Néstor Osorio, noted the
importance of indigenous knowledge and experience in ECOSOC's annual
review, which this year focuses on science, technology and innovation,
and culture for sustainable development and the MDGs.
Despite centuries of genocide, language loss, discrimination and
forcible removal, indigenous people remained the custodians of many of
the most biologically diverse areas in the world, Mr. Osorio said. He
urged the inclusion of indigenous knowledge and innovations in UN
efforts "not in the form of products to be appropriated but as
knowledge that leads to improved well-being for all, especially
indigenous peoples themselves."
Today's opening ceremony in the UN General Assembly Hall began with a
traditional flute song and then welcome by Todadaho Sid Hill,
traditional Chief of the Onondaga Nation, part of the Six Nations or
Iroquois Confederacy, which originally inhabited parts of New York.
Later in his speech, Mr. Sena thanked the chief "for the welcome into
their beautiful territory once again."May 20 2013 6:00PM
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